Carl Neureuther
Student Book Collection Competition
Winners
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2009 (22nd Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Doc M. Billingsley, Oj Kojtz´iban, Oj Kojk´asi´k: We Write, We Survive: The Rebirth of Maya Literacy
2nd place: You Xu, From Elements to a Set
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Hana Damore, How I Won Over a Hundred Dollars Worth of Books, Inspired an Independent Study, and Became the Hero of My Homeroom
2nd place: Christina Pulles, A Collection Enriched by Cultural Difference... and a Little Magic
2008 (21st Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: DJ Kaiser, The Gift of Drama
2nd place: Matthew Fluharty, The Farm Books: On Keeping, and Giving Up, a Book Collection
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Shannon Petry, Policy in Prose, and More: A Love Affair with Foreign Affairs
2nd place: Michael Dango, Impossible, Infinite Illustrations
2007 (20th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Tafline Crawford, Science and Politics in the History of Paleoanthropology
2nd place: Carter Smith, Thinking the Line: A Collection of Books on Poetry and Visual Art
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Robin Meyer, My Collection: Defined
2nd place: Lauren Hosek, The Not-So-Silent Past: An Archaeology Collection
2006 (19th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Ryan Shirey, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Collector of Scottish Books
2nd place: Benjamin Cawthra, The Improvising Image: a Jazz Photography Collection
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Jennifer Feder, Women's Wisdom: Sharing Her Voice
2nd place: Wendy Xin, The Kindred Spirits of my Dusty Upper Shelf
2005 (18th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Rachel Slaughter, Well-Tempered Elegance: A Collection Of 1950s Literary Criticism
2nd place: James W. Hofman, II, Japan, The Ambiguous, and My Shelf
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Devin Naar, From Salonika to America and Back
2nd place: Temu Brown, On My Friends
2004 (17th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Aimée Dowl, Dissecting Meaning from the Parts: the Anatomy of a Personal Collection
2nd place: Heidi Spear, Forbidden Passion into Personal Collection
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Samuel Hirst, Russian Chronicle: A Development in Books
2nd place: Amanda Thatch, My Own Museum
2003 (16th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Michael Murphy, Zap! Pow! Out!: Twentieth Century Queer Comics
2nd place: Steven A. Pijut, Marginally Speaking: A Collection of Modernist and Post-Modernist Texts
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Stephanie Hanson, Constructing Meaning from the World: A Fusion of International Fiction, Poetry and Essays
2nd place: Steve Scharre, Jesus, Muhammad and the Relentless War for Peace
2002 (15th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Kamaal Haque, Half a World Away: History, Ethnography, and Literature of Afghanistan and Pakistan
2nd place: Donna Armistead, Twentieth Century Theatrical Dance Library
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Jennifer Losi, Shelf Life: An Obsession with Collection
2nd place: Brittany Hayden, Archaeology and the Ancient World
2001 (14th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Fran Hooker, Narratives of Exploration
2nd place: Kendall Miller, The Art and Use of the Japanese Sword
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Amanda Verbeck, The Many Faces of Spirituality
2nd place: Nicolas Montemayor, How to be a Working Actor
2000 (13th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Derek Gary Dahlke, Illustrated Books from the Betty Hennessy Project
2nd place: Robin Hermann, Exploring the Fantastic: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Travis Gosselin, The Great Conversation
2nd place: Garth Hallberg, Studies in Humanity
1999 (12th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Hester Baer, German Cinema: History and Theory
2nd place: Melanie J. Evans, Children's Books
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Oriana Fox, Stürm und Drawing: A Collection of Fine Art Books
2nd place: Brian Williamson, Paths toward Graphic Satire
1998 (11th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: David Earhart, The Pacific War through Japanese Eyes: Primary Sources, 1931-1948
2nd place: Mary Jean Speare, Nineteenth Century French Opera Collection
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Cosette Reeves, Imagination
2nd place: Eric Strongin, untitled collection of military history, fantasy, science fiction works.
1997 (10th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: No information available
2nd place: No information available
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Khara A. A. Coleman
2nd place: No information available
1996 (9th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Michaela Gieseenkirchen, Works of Gertrude Stein
2nd place: Padraic Kennedy, Irish History
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Shawn Johnson, Philosophy and Theology
2nd place: Joshua Karch, The Bronte Sisters
1995 (8th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Derek Blakeley, Writing Their Own Histories: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Studies By and About British Politicians
2nd place: James McCarter, The Origin, Development, and Pastimes of Multi-cellular Life
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Sarah Frey, Star Trek: Vision for Tomorrow
2nd place: Valerie Montalvo, Why Walk When You Can Fly: The Modern Collection
1994 (7th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Marianne Erickson, The Writing of Uwe Johnson
2nd place: Robert Tripp, English Legal History: Eight Hundred Years of Justice
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Jeremy Wilkins, The J. Patout Burns Divinity Collection
2nd place: Ted Stevco, The Art Form of Cartooning
1993 (6th Annual Competition)
Information not available
1992 (5th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Jeffery W. Zents, The Collection of Philosophers
2nd place: Steven Lewis, Chinese Studies: Politics and Culture
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: John Overholt, The Thirty Years War, 1914-1945
2nd place: Monika K. Norwood, Little Afrika in Big America
1991 (4th Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Daniel Curley, A Burgeoning Library of Greco-Roman Mythology
2nd place: Jennifer K. Mundale, A Philosopher's Library
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: John Overholt, Dr. Who: 30 Years of the Unknown
2nd place: Douglas A Deden, Fractal Geometry and Chaos Theory
1990 (3rd Annual Competition)
Graduate and Undergraduate Winners
1st place: Elizabeth A. Ambrose
1st place: Adrian Seeser
2nd place: Rebecca Haidt
2nd place: Cinda Ogden
1989 (2nd Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: Rod Shene, The Ache of Modernism: 100 Years of Modern Letters
2nd place: Michael S. Smith, Land Under the Pole Star: Man and the Artic
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: David W. Beisecker, Men of Ideas: Creators of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
2nd place: Edward C. Rafferty, A Civil War Narrative
1988 (1st Annual Competition)
Graduate Winners
1st place: James Robertson, An Historian's Working Library
2nd place: Leland J. Scott, Scottish History and Culture: Medieval Emphasis
Undergraduate Winners
1st place: James Kellogg, 19th Century Travel and Adventure in America
2nd place: Alan Weiner, Reading Art